By Lisa Stadler Ok, so…one of the things I have most consistently been told about raising kids, is “Be Consistent!”. This was an easy model for me to follow when Zoe was a baby, as I was a lot more patient and open to the follies of a baby than I seemed to be once…

The summer of 2017 was never intended to be just another summer for our family. No, this one was to be a special one. For a year, my husband Gary and I planned with our daughter Lisa and granddaughter Zoe, a summer long visit of demon slaying and healing. Lisa was coming to stay with…

By Lisa Stadler For much of my life, I have struggled with my weight and body image. I know this seems to be a reoccurring theme in American women, and really it’s quite cliché. That said, I was (am) a cliché. I was chunky for a short stint when I was around 11, and then…

By Lisa Stadler I know my TMS is working, because the color orange no longer makes me viscerally angry. Yes, colors make me feel things. According to some random online color test I took, once, I have trichromatic vision. This means that my eyes can differentiate shades of colors at a very high frequency. I’m…

By Lisa Stadler I imagine there will come a time where I won’t remember how so-fricken-always “just tired,” I was for the last few decades (yes decades). Kind of like, how a mother forgets the pains of child labor, or how painful it is for those few days after braces get tightened. But, right now,…

By Lisa Stadler Moving on…. Day 4 and 5 of TMS…Yesterday wasn’t overly exciting, but it was a pretty busy and long day. TMS was scheduled for later in the day, so the morning was relaxed. Normally, if I don’t have something I HAVE to get up for, I will find a way to stay…